economy that allows discerning between lockdown shocks and a real business cycle shocks. With this methodology at hand, we … then evaluate the impact of lockdown measures on economic uncertainty in a second step. Overall, we only find a moderate … policy uncertainty decreases after a lockdown shock. …

In this paper, we provide causal evidence of the immediate and near-term impact of stringent COVID-19 lockdown policies … that the three-week lockdown had a large and significant immediate negative impact on employment in the treated districts … narrowed four months after the lockdown was lifted, we detect a persistent nationwide decline in both earnings and employment …

Since the start of the CoViD-19 pandemic, a major source of concern has been its effect on mental health. Using pre-pandemic … has evolved along with the most prominent risk factors associated with the pandemic. Overall, mental health decreased … sharply with the onset of the first lockdown but recovered fairly quickly. In December 2020, levels of mental health are …